If only they could spur even more economic growth with the planning and construction of more fabs for all the RAM it will need (assuming the level of growth that their S-1s are claiming)
Well my process was/is quite messy. It started out as an experiment for a desktop app (which turned out to be a bit more complex than anticipated), mostly using copy and paste to try different approaches for a working prototype.
The progress is bottlenecked by how things are done with C. Most features went through an considerable LLM research phase to find the sweet spot how I want to solve it. In the feature phase I've coded more and more on my own and used the LLM as a reviewer on the critical parts.
I know a few things about C, but my knowledge is very passive, but there is already a path carved in my brain from influential C programmers you find on yt and blogs. That being said, LLMs will actively gatekeep and bullshit you about C and system architecture. You need to drill down hard, from different angles i.e. what is efficient and what is pragmatic or you question about how hardware actually works. They still may have blind spots and casually keeping things from you. Naively asking for code snippets will be tutorial style and often backfires, not unseen that they rant about their own code in another session. So you need to maintain a healthy balance of knowledge from trustworthy humans and the quickly available, but potentially inaccurate/incomplete LLM knowledge. Be critical, you are the captain.
LLMs are not bad at reviewing C code. They catch a lot of noob mistakes and are more helpful then compilers. But again they tend to produce tutorial solutions. They litter everything with malloc, which is something I am trying to avoid. I've not touched arenas yet, I want to fall flat on raw C to value them. They can teach you arenas, but I suggest to cross check with the real world, especially because you want ergonomics and correctness on that behalf.
Most C adjacent topics are easy to pick up on the go. Build systems, debugging, API vs ABI, static vs dynamic linking, macros, etc. A seasoned programmer can get a quick overview and ad hoc help, for things that are often buried in mediocre docs.
Also if you happen to come from more higher level languages or dynamic languages. Expect C to require easily 5x more code for literally anything.
If you prefer to learn the language more structured, work your way towards learning how to create data structures and algorithms in C. Make a clear distinction between static and dynamic allocation and learn along the road how C/hardware wants you to deal with memory.
The annoying thing is how many businesses and communities rely on Meta platforms instead of their own websites and sometimes it's the only way to contact them. If I want to check if the small neighborhood grocery has something in stock? No phone, only Instagram DMs. When I was on vacation abroad and wanted to see if an out of the way farmers market was still happening despite rain? Only Facebook.
The good thing is that it isn't everywhere: Taiwan, Japan, and China usually have apps like Line or WeChat as options. In Europe there's more usage of WhatsApp (which is still Meta owned but also not social media). But in the US (and countries in the Americas), I still see a heavy reliance on Instagram and Facebook.
> want to check if the small neighborhood grocery has something in stock? No phone, only Instagram DMs.
You can use a throwaway account for that or other things such as FB Marketplace. It's not ideal because it generates traffic on FB, but it's better than handing over all your private communications to Zuckerberg.
Not sure what country are you from. Last time I tried to make a throwaway account to sell something in Facebook Marketplace I was welcome with a submit picture to test if you are real which when uploaded with a IA generated picture got blocked.
Back when I last used FB you could create an account tied to an email address. I don't know if things have changed since, but throwaway phone numbers are also a thing.
> The annoying thing is how many businesses and communities rely on Meta platforms
During local elections over here (Netherlands), it was impossible to find any info from local parties outside of Facebook. Those parties are also the biggest, usually. I ended up voting for the one party that had a website with their plans for that exact reason.
> There's no room for a middle ground or nuance anymore. You are either entirely in one tribe, or entirely out.
A question I find myself selfishly asking a lot is: why do I have to be the one who is accepting or tolerant of others when they may not be accepting of me or my friends and family? I should speak respectfully of rural areas and their inhabitants but cities are free game to be portrayed as dens of crime, drugs, filth, and illegal immigrants? I should respect evangelical Christian communities but my transgender friends can't enjoy the same rights, benefits, and protections of society as cisgender/heterosexual people anywhere they go in the US? To make it explicitly political, Democrats are being asked to moderate and not be so intolerant but no such demands seem to be being made of Republicans or their voters.
Why not both? I read an article recently about the Texas Senate race and one Republican voter they interviewed said it was about "the immigrants and the guns." So low information voters get a pass because they're awash in right wing propaganda? What happened to the oft cited right wing value of "personal responsibility"?
I'm not sure what to believe. If the AI craze is what people here say it is, then RAM producers should be eagerly planning new fabs to spin up (you know, economics 101 increasing supply to meet demand). If RAM producers aren't planning on capacity increases, then maybe the AI craze isn't that real. If RAM is a boom/bust industry, then shouldn't we be anticipating a bust in the next few years? Or is the industry not as cyclical as people make it out to be?
> The bad PE phenomenon buyout is annoying, but businesses that become miserable for the customers and employees are not stable long-term businesses
What happens when those businesses are hospitals, for example? I've read too many stories of hospitals getting bought by PE and either shutting down or staying (while offering increasingly poor service). In one outcome, it reduces the accessibility to healthcare. In the other, it forces those most unable to choose to stay with subpar care. In both cases, it's not like other health systems are rushing in to replace what has been lost. We just end up with fewer and shittier hospitals.
This has been us the past few years:
* Fall 2024: we had to get star bolts[1] installed to reinforce our front wall - $24k
* Spring 2025: our (finished) basement flooded, requiring a French drain to be installed and the basement restored - $18k
* Ongoing repairs to our roof to address leaks - $8k
Just a seemingly never ending stream of major repairs, which is taking up money we could have used on actual improvements (HVAC upgrades/mini split installation, reinforcing insulation, kitchen upgrades, etc.) that might actually raise the value of the home. Instead, I'm just hoping the repairs will keep us from losing money on the house when we sell.
It might kill the console gaming market, too. Typically consoles get cheaper over time post-release. Instead, all the latest gen consoles are getting price hikes and at least one company is potentially pushing back the next gen release (PS6). A PlayStation 5 for $900? I'll just wait and be happy with my perfectly usable Switch 1 (since the 2 is also more expensive than it should be).
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